| PERIODS: |
1979-01-01 00:00 +0000 to 2006-08-25 21:00 +0000 (Entire dataset)
Period details by subset Period details by subset:
1979-01-01 00:00 +0000 to 1982-01-01 03:00 +0000
1982-01-11 00:00 +0000 to 2006-08-25 21:00 +0000 (Vertical pressure level fields)
1982-01-01 00:00 +0000 to 2006-08-25 21:00 +0000 (Surface and flux fields)
1979-01-01 00:00 +0000 to 1979-12-31 21:00 +0000 (Vertical pressure level fields, multiple days in a single TAR file)
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| UPDATES: |
Monthly (nominally)
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| VARIABLES: |
| Air Temperature | Albedo | Canopy Characteristics | Cloud Amount/Frequency |
| Cloud Base Pressure | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice | Cloud Top Pressure | Dew Point Temperature |
| Evaporation | Freezing Rain | Geopotential Height | Heat Flux |
| Humidity | Hydrostatic Pressure | Longwave Radiation | Planetary Boundary Layer Height |
| Potential Temperature | Precipitable Water | Precipitation Amount | Precipitation Rate |
| Rain | Runoff | Sea Level Pressure | Shortwave Radiation |
| Skin Temperature | Snow | Snow Cover | Snow Depth |
| Snow Melt | Snow Water Equivalent | Soil Moisture/Water Content | Soil Temperature |
| Surface Air Temperature | Surface Pressure | Surface Winds | Tropopause |
| Upper Level Winds | Vegetation Cover | Vertical Wind Motion | Water Vapor |
| Wind Shear | | | |

GRIB parameter table
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| LEVELS: |
See the detailed metadata for level information
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| TYPES: |
Grid
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| COVERAGE: |
Longitude Range: Westernmost=148.64E Easternmost=2.568W
Latitude Range: Southernmost=0.897N Northernmost=85.333N
Detailed coverage information Detailed coverage information:
32.463km x 32.463km (at 50N) oriented 107W (349x277 Lambert Conformal starting at 1N,145.5W)
32.463km x 32.463km (at 50N) oriented 107W (349x277 Lambert Conformal starting at 1N,145.5W) (Surface and flux fields)
32.463km x 32.463km (at 50N) oriented 107W (349x277 Lambert Conformal starting at 1N,145.5W) (Vertical pressure level fields)
32.463km x 32.463km (at 50N) oriented 107W (349x277 Lambert Conformal starting at 1N,145.5W) (Vertical pressure level fields, multiple days in a single TAR file)
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| SOURCES: |
DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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| RELATED SITES: |
NCEP's NARR Homepage
Other GCIP Model Output in the CISL RDA
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| PUBLICATIONS: |
Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds608.0."
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| VOLUME: |
16308.51 GBytes (Entire dataset)
Volume details by subset Volume details by subset:
Vertical pressure level fields: 66.62 MBytes
Vertical pressure level fields, multiple days in a single TAR file: 3145.84 GBytes
Surface and flux fields: 4248.61 GBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
WMO GRIB1
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| MORE DETAILS: |
View more details for this dataset, including dataset citation, data contributors, and other detailed metadata
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| CONTACT: |
For assistance with this dataset, please contact
Chi-Fan Shih (303-497-1833)
. If the specialist is unavailable, please contact
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